Laying Low 2.0, Thursday, Period 2

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"So," Kanan said, standing at the front of an actual classroom this morning to a musical backdrop of Sabotage. It was muffled somewhat, most likely because he'd sandwiched the fish between two pillows and strapped a couple of belts around them to make them stay. "Sometimes, when you're trying to lay low, it isn't possible to travel alone. And sometimes, sometimes your trael companion isn't exactly what you might call stealthy. Or subtle."

Check-ch-check-check-check-ch-check it out
What-wha-what-what-what's it all about?

Kanan grimaced a little.

"Let's say, hypothetically, that your travel companion is a screaming flying fish that stalks you around and shows up out of nowhere right when you think you've given it the slip, possibly because it's holding some kind of grudge for sticking it, say, into a freezer for a few days as a favor to a friend. Hypothetically. And maybe you hypothetically have plans to take it on a sightseeing tour to the moon. The moon's great. Excellent view of space, and of Earth. Nowhere within earshot..."

There was a tiny exploding sound, and a small puff of smoke drifted out from between the pillows. The fish had fired off another firework. Kanan was beyond the point of even noticing, anymore.

"Here's a pop quiz on laying low, class. Assuming the moon isn't far enough, how would you go about giving your travel companion the slip? And before you go there, no, killing it isn't an option."

He knew from experience. When it had showed up floating over his bed this morning screaming, he'd tried.

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Like you're being stalked by a fish possessed by the devil himself.

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[seriesofbaddecisions]

Sabine Wren

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[in_sidon_we_trust]

Prince Sidon

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[midichlorianfail]

Theron Shan

Lecture!

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Kanan's really trying not to be, but he's maybe, visibly, actually the slightest bit twitc--

Work-wa-work-work-work-wa-work it out
Let's turn this, turn this party out!

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Well, this thing had definitely gotten creepier since Sabine had had it. She was still considering what else it needed to look better, though.

Discuss!

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How to give the fish the slip!

For starters, maybe remove the homing mechanism that has it stubbornly flying right back to you no matter where you put it, huh?

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"Why is killing it not an option?" Sabine checked.

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"Because it gets better."

Kanan looked at Sabine with the deadpan, faintly haunted look of a man who just knew.

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"But maybe next time it won't," Sabine pointed out.

If you killed it hard enough.

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Other people had attempted some very thorough killings before the thing had been equipped with magical healing abilities.

Kanan just looked speculatively toward the pillow sandwich.

"Skywalker and I are going to give blowing it out an airlock a try," he replied. "That one's generally a pretty thorough way of killing things."

Said the guy who had survived that at least once.

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[seriesofbaddecisions]

"You sound very confident." No. "Have you tried electrocuting it?"

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[midichlorianfail]

"Maybe try to distract it with something. Like a homicidal cleaning droid?"

Theron, no.

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"I've got a cranky astromech at my disposal," Kanan noted. "Not entirely the same thing, but just about as homicidal."

He paused.

"Either they'll battle to the death or they'll join forces. I'm not sure how I feel about that."

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[midichlorianfail]

Introducing Chopper to the fish would indeed be a terrible plan. So good job putting that idea out into the universe, guys.

"An astromech would be too intelligent," Theron agreed. "There's a cleaner droid with a grudge against ankles at work."

A self-righting murder-roomba now.

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Kanan paused for a moment.

"Was that the one in the holo?"

The one attacking Theron's ankles? The fish had shown him the footage a few times, now.

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[midichlorianfail]

"...yes."

Theron deeply regretted ever letting Aphra into the workshop.

Talk to Kanan!

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He hates the fish and he hates his life and he hates Skywalker a little bit and he hates the fish.

Mostly the fish.

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[intraspective]

Ino?

Ino was mostly showing up just to grin at him. And his pain.

(Mostly his pain.)

What? She'd offered to take it!

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"Laugh it up, Iris," Kanan drawled.

A puff of confetti dribbled out from between the pillows.

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[intraspective]

"That's the plan!" she said cheerfully, looking thoroughly delighted. "You deserve this!"

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"Remind me what I did to deserve this, again?"

Talk to the TA!

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She would be a far less annoying travel companion.

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[seriesofbaddecisions]

Thank you, narrative. That was not a high bar. She didn't even know the words to Sabotage.

OOC!

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THE FISH THE FISH KANAN GOT THE FISH.

If anybody wants to get on the fishy timeshare this week, just let me know! It's going to keep making its way back to Kanan after an hour or two until next Wednesday, because it's got a GRUDGE for that freezer thing, though.

... I need to find some way to work this into Steampunk Weekend shenanigans, too.